London (DK Eyewitness Travel Guide)
DK Publishing
Language: English
Pages: 442
ISBN: 1540340201
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London is your in-depth guide to the very best of London. From taking in the magnificent sight of Big Ben and Parliament Square from the great heights of the London Eye to walking across Tower Bridge after visiting the historic Tower of London to treating yourself to a night at the theatre on the city's West , London truly offers a little bit of everything.
Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London:
• Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance.
• Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights.
• Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums.
• Free, color pull-out map (print edition) marked with sights, a selected sight and street index, public transit map, practical information on getting around, and a distance chart for measuring walking distances .
• Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area.
• Area maps marked with sights and restaurants .
• Detailed city maps include street finder index for easy navigation.
• Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights.
• Suggested day-trips and itineraries to explore beyond the city .
• Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations.
With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London truly shows you this city as no one else can.
Recommend: For a pocket guidebook to London, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 London, which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time and experience the best of everything.
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taste of the style of fashionable London in the 1820s. In Pall Mall (see p94), Charles Barry’s Reform and Travellers’ Clubs are equally evocative. Most West End squares have some Georgian buildings, while Fournier Street (see p172) has good small-scale domestic architecture. The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A, see pp212–15) has silver, as do the London Silver Vaults (see p143), where it is for sale. Hogarth’s pictures, at Tate Britain (see pp84–7) and Sir John Soane’s Museum (see pp138–9), show
Ale Sermon, held given oranges and in St. Paul’s. Cakes and ale are lemons at the provided according to the will of a 17th-century stationer. Oranges and Lemons service at St. Clement Danes Name-Day Ceremonies church. In February, clowns take part in a Every May 21, King Henry VI, service for Joseph who was murdered in the Tower of London in 1471, is still Grimaldi (1779– remembered by the members 1837) at the Holy of his two famous foundations, Trinity Church in Eton College and King’s College,
ornate Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce just opposite (open first Sunday of The name derives from the last of the 12 crosses erected by Edward I to mark the funeral route in 1290 of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, from Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey. Today a 19th-century replica stands in the forecourt of Charing Cross station. Both the cross and the Charing Cross Hotel, built into the station frontage, were designed in 1863 by E. M. Barry, architect of
his City churches (see p49). The deep, coffered dome, with its ornate plasterwork, was a forerunner of St. Paul’s. St. Stephen’s airy columned interior comes as a surprise after its plain exterior. The font cover and pulpit canopy are The spire was added in 1717. The dome makes this small church light and airy. Egyptian Hall in Mansion House decorated with exquisite carved figures that contrast strongly with the stark simplicity of Henry Moore’s massive white stone altar (1987). However,
182 LONDON AREA BY AREA Exploring Tate Modern Tate Modern’s displays are arranged into four thematic wings, each of which revolves around a large central room that focuses on a key period of modern art: Cubism, Surrealism, postwar painting and sculpture, and Minimalism. Around these focal points, smaller, changing displays explore how each movement reflects earlier artistic practice or influenced subsequent developments. Works shown here are examples of what might be on display.